Ahhhhhh if only there was such a thing for my iPaq!:(
I'd definitely be willing to pay to have a 48/49 emu for that thing - it's really the one killer app I feel like I'm missing. Yea, I know there's rdcalc and whatnot, but if it's not RPN, it's not a real calculator.
Well, speaking as an ignorant American (or USian or jackass or whatever you want to call me...I've got better things to worry about)....
Come to think of it, I really don't remember ever hearing an American use the word "spat". I would definitely say "spit", because "spit" is both a noun and a verb and "spat" isn't a word! Ok, yes, I'm sure it is, but it just sounds wrong to my ears.
I think we Americans just don't like the 'a' sound there. Same reason we'd say "the bear shit in the woods" instead of "the bear shat in the woods". It just sounds silly:)
Well - why don't you? Is it because it's addictive? So's alcohol. Cuz it messes with your mind? So does alcohol. Impairs judgement? So does alcohol. How is it any different?
When's the last time you saw someone smoke a joint and try to beat the crap out of someone? I just saw some drunks do that the other day.
I'm just saying that I truely do not understand how those who are anti-drug can be pro-alcohol. It has at *least* as many negative effects, save the possiblity of you getting arrested for having it.
Despite what some would have you believe, the morning-after pill is only intended to AVOID conception.
It's not, repeat NOT an abortion pill (as opposed to RU-486, etc). What it does do is stop the egg from coming down, so that it won't meet the sperm that just made its way thru the broken condom. That's why you gotta get it quick (within 48hrs or so, but the sooner the better), so it can stop in time.
Now, all you kids out there, don't start screwing without condoms just cuz you can take the magic little pill. It's only something like 75% effective (I pulled that number out of the air, but I heard something in that ballpark I'm sure google knows better).
But people REALLY have to learn about this. Yes, there's a stigma attached to an abortion. But there should NOT be one for the morning-after pill. And I'll bet there have been a lot of unwanted babies and abortions that could have been avoided. But so many people don't even know this option exists (thank god for Love Line, otherwise I sure wouldn't have known...)
Now if only they'd sell the things over the counter. I had a seriously stressful couple weeks once when I ended up in a bad situation on a friday and no clinics were open until monday...
Agreed. I'd be hard pressed to think of more than 5-10 people that I know who *haven't* smoked a joint or two.
That said, most aren't regulars (although I'd say that's more because weed's expensive than any other reason).
And that's also not to say that my friends or I have a problem with anyone *not* smoking. More power to 'em. But I hope they don't drink or smoke cigs either, otherwise they're just being hypocritical.
Now I don't think anyone has any real figures on the subject, but I'd be willing to put money on the fact that there are *far* more people who don't mind a joint now and then than the anti-drug types would have you believe. It's not just the depressed outcasts, it's the 4.0 student next door and the company's VP and lots of others you wouldn't suspect.
Well, if it's any consolation, I totally agree with you. I hate having my KDE desktop going, with my gaim window over on the side. It just looks silly.
I don't care what's going on under the hood, but I wish there was a way that I could just go to a themes site and downloaded one, it could install itself in both gtk and qt formats so everything was consistant. That'd be awesome.
Although first I'd settle for a standard way to install software between distributions...
Bah, yeah I meant trusted ones inside (since you could conceivably not want every internal machine to be able to change things). Naturally letting outside hosts mess with UPNP would typically be a bad thing.
Speaking of printing, is it possible to do borderless prints out of a photo printer yet? My friend had a mac running OS 10.2 but sold it because it wasn't possible to print borderless photos on any of the three printers he tried it with (a kodak, an hp, and a sony, I believe).
While I was very impressed with the OS in general (and I'm saving my lunch money for a G5 myself) I was very unimpressed with its printer support.
I don't figure it's any more likely that there are backdoors in a new version than in the original version. Combine that with the bug fixes they put in and I'd say it's usually safer to upgrade...
So disable the UPNP service on your windows box (or on the router if it supports it).
My netgear has a checkbox to disable it. That said, I leave it on since it makes it so I can actually transfer files over IM programs. Regular port forwarding works fine unless you have two computers that want to run the same app...
So do it the other way around, like a watchdog timer. Keep ACKing your microwave signal from the ground. If the satellite sees the ACKing stop or gets a NAK, kill the microwaves. Of course then you have the problem of restarting the thing when you don't know exactly where it's aimed...
Uhhhhhg, built-in video....I wish I knew why motherboard makers (esp Intel) make their integrated graphics so *terrible*. I don't care about fps,etc (this is my work mobo, a D865GBF) and its graphics are horrid. MASSIVE ghosting and everything's all fuzzy. Same on my friend's dell. nVidia quality my ass.
Luckily I found myself a GeForce 4MX on ebay for like $19 so now I don't have headaches anymore:)
Now if only I could find an LCD that'd do 1600x1200 (the minimum resolution I can stand...)for less than $750 and I'd be all set. My 21" CRT takes up entirely too much space...
Yeah, I've heard that. I just don't see why the firmware on the card would need to change based on the PCI host...it seems like if the drivers are doing what they should, the board shouldn't ever even know it's in a different environment. Oh well. I've only got a laptop at the moment so the point is moot to me anyway:)
Well dang, who said anything about the 1050 locals? I just want the 380s...the locals don't do their own HDTV yet anyway (not mine anyway). I just want ABCW, NBCW, CBSW, and FOXW...Oh well...my pointy thing on the roof works for now.
I'd say a lot of its problems have to do with that fact that (at least in windows) it has the worst drivers I've dealt with since the early win95 days.
I have two USB Bluetooth dongles. The first one blows chunks on its own. I plug it in and >50% of the time...nothing. I ran the thing thru a USB analyzer at work (I do USB for a living...) and there's no activity at all. I also checked the USB-IF list and lo-and-behold it's not even USB logo certified. Great. Got the 2nd one from a friend (an iogear, hardware actually *works* on this one...)
But both devices seem to rely on the WIDCOMM bluetooth stack. Unfortunately, it's yet another situation where they sell the drivers to the OEM and you have to the OEM for drivers. Both of mine only have old versions on their websites (although iogear has the newer one but it loads with both dongles). Thanks guys. Now it's gonna be another situation where there are perfectly good drivers available but no end user ever sees them. But even when they load, they BARELY work. One one version, I was never able to pair with my PDA. On another version, I could pair with it, but I couldn't hotsync (COM port emulation didn't work at all). On another one it would pair but NOTHING worked. Finally, by going to a random dongle maker and downloading their driver package and tricking the inf into loading with mine I was able to hack together something that worked. But Jesus, it took a whole weekend of fucking with it to be able to do *anything*.
That said, I haven't had any trouble talking to a Mac or to an Ericsson phone with the same pda.
Just out of curiosity, why WOULD there be hardware incompatabilities with PCI cards? The PCI spec determines all low level behavior (signaling, etc is common between any PCI system). The only things that should be different would be what you say with those signals - which should be strictly a driver thing shouldn't it (and typically would be the same between platforms, endian-type issues aside)?
For development, we put our chip (PCI on one side) on a board and it talks to a PC just fine. And while I've never tried sticking it in a mac, I see no reason why it wouldn't work (assuming we had drivers for it, but that's not a hardware issue at all)
Well it worked for me...I guess. Last I tried (a few month ago with Mandrake) I was runnning with my HP DeskJet 895Cse (getting old, but works fine). Yea, it printed ok, but it looked like ASS. It was obviously completely ignoring my black cartridge and was printing black by layering the colors so it came out bluish-grey. Filled areas of color were all...spotted. The edges of text were all fuzzy. It's certainly just a driver problem, but I recall there were some 5-odd different drivers I could choose from. Some came out black and white, some spewed gibberish all over my paper, so tried to fill my paper totally black, but none of them was able to print a color web page with anything approaching reasonable quality.
So in my experience (and maybe I've just been using bad models, but windows seems to manage) Linux works great if you have a laser printer. But I've yet to see reasonable output from an inkjet.
It is for those of us with HDTV and DirecTV. For some reason they seem to show no interest in carrying the networks in HDTV. But with an antenna on your roof, you get digital broadcasts right over the air. Looks better than off the dish sometimes because (I guess) they compress it less.
In the Bay Area, pretty much every channel now has a digital version broadcasting.
Too true. That said fsck is a FUCKing stupid term. If you're going to swear, swear. Fuck is just a word and anybody who's offended by a lone word needs to be smacked upside the head...
If you're offended by the meaning, fine, but then "fsck" should be just as offensive.
*sigh* I just don't get what's so offensive about it...
Totally offtopic, and not even related to your comment, but it seemed a good a time as any to bring it up:)
I'd say the biggest problem will be if we all have these newfangled automowhatzits zipping around, perfectly coordinated at 200mph and then that one geezer pulls out into the intersection in his "dumb" car causing the whole thing to blow up cuz it's the only vehicle left that can't talk to the rest of them.
The problem with the system is it requires a LOT of faith in the other cars on the road. That said, I hope we get there sometime...
yea but the question was how do you know? my gf got it when she was 20 - no family history, no early symptoms, just one month she suddenly lost tons of weight, went to the doctor, and he just said "sorry..."
So if only those predisposed to it can get it (I'll take your word for it, I didn't know that) I'd say that there are a LOT of people predisposed to it who don't have a clue that they are.
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Ahhhhhh if only there was such a thing for my iPaq! :(
I'd definitely be willing to pay to have a 48/49 emu for that thing - it's really the one killer app I feel like I'm missing. Yea, I know there's rdcalc and whatnot, but if it's not RPN, it's not a real calculator.
Well, speaking as an ignorant American (or USian or jackass or whatever you want to call me...I've got better things to worry about)....
:)
Come to think of it, I really don't remember ever hearing an American use the word "spat". I would definitely say "spit", because "spit" is both a noun and a verb and "spat" isn't a word! Ok, yes, I'm sure it is, but it just sounds wrong to my ears.
I think we Americans just don't like the 'a' sound there. Same reason we'd say "the bear shit in the woods" instead of "the bear shat in the woods". It just sounds silly
Well - why don't you? Is it because it's addictive? So's alcohol. Cuz it messes with your mind? So does alcohol. Impairs judgement? So does alcohol. How is it any different?
When's the last time you saw someone smoke a joint and try to beat the crap out of someone? I just saw some drunks do that the other day.
I'm just saying that I truely do not understand how those who are anti-drug can be pro-alcohol. It has at *least* as many negative effects, save the possiblity of you getting arrested for having it.
Despite what some would have you believe, the morning-after pill is only intended to AVOID conception.
It's not, repeat NOT an abortion pill (as opposed to RU-486, etc). What it does do is stop the egg from coming down, so that it won't meet the sperm that just made its way thru the broken condom. That's why you gotta get it quick (within 48hrs or so, but the sooner the better), so it can stop in time.
Now, all you kids out there, don't start screwing without condoms just cuz you can take the magic little pill. It's only something like 75% effective (I pulled that number out of the air, but I heard something in that ballpark I'm sure google knows better).
But people REALLY have to learn about this. Yes, there's a stigma attached to an abortion. But there should NOT be one for the morning-after pill. And I'll bet there have been a lot of unwanted babies and abortions that could have been avoided. But so many people don't even know this option exists (thank god for Love Line, otherwise I sure wouldn't have known...)
Now if only they'd sell the things over the counter. I had a seriously stressful couple weeks once when I ended up in a bad situation on a friday and no clinics were open until monday...
Agreed. I'd be hard pressed to think of more than 5-10 people that I know who *haven't* smoked a joint or two.
That said, most aren't regulars (although I'd say that's more because weed's expensive than any other reason).
And that's also not to say that my friends or I have a problem with anyone *not* smoking. More power to 'em. But I hope they don't drink or smoke cigs either, otherwise they're just being hypocritical.
Now I don't think anyone has any real figures on the subject, but I'd be willing to put money on the fact that there are *far* more people who don't mind a joint now and then than the anti-drug types would have you believe. It's not just the depressed outcasts, it's the 4.0 student next door and the company's VP and lots of others you wouldn't suspect.
Yes, damn the capitalists, walking around in their top hats!
Sheesh. Get a grip.
Well, if it's any consolation, I totally agree with you. I hate having my KDE desktop going, with my gaim window over on the side. It just looks silly.
I don't care what's going on under the hood, but I wish there was a way that I could just go to a themes site and downloaded one, it could install itself in both gtk and qt formats so everything was consistant. That'd be awesome.
Although first I'd settle for a standard way to install software between distributions...
Bah, yeah I meant trusted ones inside (since you could conceivably not want every internal machine to be able to change things). Naturally letting outside hosts mess with UPNP would typically be a bad thing.
True. But I'd say it's pretty secure if you
:)
1) Block untrusted hosts from controlling the router via UPNP
-and-
2) Don't run trojans
Speaking of printing, is it possible to do borderless prints out of a photo printer yet? My friend had a mac running OS 10.2 but sold it because it wasn't possible to print borderless photos on any of the three printers he tried it with (a kodak, an hp, and a sony, I believe).
While I was very impressed with the OS in general (and I'm saving my lunch money for a G5 myself) I was very unimpressed with its printer support.
I don't figure it's any more likely that there are backdoors in a new version than in the original version. Combine that with the bug fixes they put in and I'd say it's usually safer to upgrade...
So disable the UPNP service on your windows box (or on the router if it supports it).
My netgear has a checkbox to disable it. That said, I leave it on since it makes it so I can actually transfer files over IM programs. Regular port forwarding works fine unless you have two computers that want to run the same app...
So do it the other way around, like a watchdog timer. Keep ACKing your microwave signal from the ground. If the satellite sees the ACKing stop or gets a NAK, kill the microwaves. Of course then you have the problem of restarting the thing when you don't know exactly where it's aimed...
Uhhhhhg, built-in video....I wish I knew why motherboard makers (esp Intel) make their integrated graphics so *terrible*. I don't care about fps,etc (this is my work mobo, a D865GBF) and its graphics are horrid. MASSIVE ghosting and everything's all fuzzy. Same on my friend's dell. nVidia quality my ass.
:)
Luckily I found myself a GeForce 4MX on ebay for like $19 so now I don't have headaches anymore
Now if only I could find an LCD that'd do 1600x1200 (the minimum resolution I can stand...)for less than $750 and I'd be all set. My 21" CRT takes up entirely too much space...
most people would accept raising cost to something akin to $1.10/song
Would they? There's something magic about being less than a dollar. I think that might have more of an impact than you think it would...
Yeah, I've heard that. I just don't see why the firmware on the card would need to change based on the PCI host...it seems like if the drivers are doing what they should, the board shouldn't ever even know it's in a different environment. Oh well. I've only got a laptop at the moment so the point is moot to me anyway :)
Well dang, who said anything about the 1050 locals? I just want the 380s...the locals don't do their own HDTV yet anyway (not mine anyway). I just want ABCW, NBCW, CBSW, and FOXW...Oh well...my pointy thing on the roof works for now.
I'd say a lot of its problems have to do with that fact that (at least in windows) it has the worst drivers I've dealt with since the early win95 days.
I have two USB Bluetooth dongles. The first one blows chunks on its own. I plug it in and >50% of the time...nothing. I ran the thing thru a USB analyzer at work (I do USB for a living...) and there's no activity at all. I also checked the USB-IF list and lo-and-behold it's not even USB logo certified. Great. Got the 2nd one from a friend (an iogear, hardware actually *works* on this one...)
But both devices seem to rely on the WIDCOMM bluetooth stack. Unfortunately, it's yet another situation where they sell the drivers to the OEM and you have to the OEM for drivers. Both of mine only have old versions on their websites (although iogear has the newer one but it loads with both dongles). Thanks guys. Now it's gonna be another situation where there are perfectly good drivers available but no end user ever sees them. But even when they load, they BARELY work. One one version, I was never able to pair with my PDA. On another version, I could pair with it, but I couldn't hotsync (COM port emulation didn't work at all). On another one it would pair but NOTHING worked. Finally, by going to a random dongle maker and downloading their driver package and tricking the inf into loading with mine I was able to hack together something that worked. But Jesus, it took a whole weekend of fucking with it to be able to do *anything*.
That said, I haven't had any trouble talking to a Mac or to an Ericsson phone with the same pda.
Thanks, WIDCOMM. Keep up the good work!
Just out of curiosity, why WOULD there be hardware incompatabilities with PCI cards? The PCI spec determines all low level behavior (signaling, etc is common between any PCI system). The only things that should be different would be what you say with those signals - which should be strictly a driver thing shouldn't it (and typically would be the same between platforms, endian-type issues aside)?
For development, we put our chip (PCI on one side) on a board and it talks to a PC just fine. And while I've never tried sticking it in a mac, I see no reason why it wouldn't work (assuming we had drivers for it, but that's not a hardware issue at all)
Well it worked for me...I guess. Last I tried (a few month ago with Mandrake) I was runnning with my HP DeskJet 895Cse (getting old, but works fine). Yea, it printed ok, but it looked like ASS. It was obviously completely ignoring my black cartridge and was printing black by layering the colors so it came out bluish-grey. Filled areas of color were all...spotted. The edges of text were all fuzzy. It's certainly just a driver problem, but I recall there were some 5-odd different drivers I could choose from. Some came out black and white, some spewed gibberish all over my paper, so tried to fill my paper totally black, but none of them was able to print a color web page with anything approaching reasonable quality.
So in my experience (and maybe I've just been using bad models, but windows seems to manage) Linux works great if you have a laser printer. But I've yet to see reasonable output from an inkjet.
It is for those of us with HDTV and DirecTV. For some reason they seem to show no interest in carrying the networks in HDTV. But with an antenna on your roof, you get digital broadcasts right over the air. Looks better than off the dish sometimes because (I guess) they compress it less.
In the Bay Area, pretty much every channel now has a digital version broadcasting.
Starting anti-anti-swearing rant in 3...2...1...
:)
Too true. That said fsck is a FUCK ing stupid term. If you're going to swear, swear. Fuck is just a word and anybody who's offended by a lone word needs to be smacked upside the head...
If you're offended by the meaning, fine, but then "fsck" should be just as offensive.
*sigh* I just don't get what's so offensive about it...
Totally offtopic, and not even related to your comment, but it seemed a good a time as any to bring it up
And yet we're in the 50s here in California. Something seems to have gone horribly wrong...
I'd say the biggest problem will be if we all have these newfangled automowhatzits zipping around, perfectly coordinated at 200mph and then that one geezer pulls out into the intersection in his "dumb" car causing the whole thing to blow up cuz it's the only vehicle left that can't talk to the rest of them.
The problem with the system is it requires a LOT of faith in the other cars on the road. That said, I hope we get there sometime...
yea but the question was how do you know? my gf got it when she was 20 - no family history, no early symptoms, just one month she suddenly lost tons of weight, went to the doctor, and he just said "sorry..."
So if only those predisposed to it can get it (I'll take your word for it, I didn't know that) I'd say that there are a LOT of people predisposed to it who don't have a clue that they are.